Union Power Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde alleged on Saturday that BJP was into the habit of resorting to bogus-voting and claimed that a case in this regard has been registered at Bharathinagar during the first phase of Karnataka elections.
Shinde, who was here on way to Bellary where he would campaign for party candidates in the Assembly polls, said that “BJP has started bogus voting (in the first phase of Assembly elections being held on Saturday)”.
Case has been booked by Bharathinagar police in Bangalore and “people have been charged” (for bogus voting), he claimed.
Charging BJP with resorting to bogus-voting in other parts of the country in the past, the Congress leader and former Maharashtra Chief Minister said “today’s (Bharatinagar case) is another proof (of bogus voting).